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Sobyanin says 2,652 drones headed toward Moscow in one week
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said that 2,652 drones headed toward the Moscow region during the week from 8:30 a.m. on August 15 to 8:30 a.m. on August 22. Russia’s Defense Ministry also announced that 457 Ukrainian aircraft-type drones had been intercepted and destroyed that night.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said in a statement on air security around the Russian capital that 2,652 unmanned aerial vehicles headed toward the Moscow region from 8:30 a.m. on August 15 to 8:30 a.m. on August 22.
Sobyanin said air defense units neutralized most of the drones on approaches far from Moscow. According to the mayor’s statement, 493 drones were destroyed as they approached the capital.
Five drones headed toward Moscow shot down
Sobyanin announced that five drones advancing toward Moscow on the morning of August 22 had also been shot down by air defense units of Russia’s Defense Ministry, adding that emergency response teams were working in the area where debris had fallen.
Defense Ministry announces destruction of 457 drones
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that air defense units had intercepted and destroyed 457 Ukrainian aircraft-type drones that night.
The ministry said the drones had been neutralized over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov, Saratov, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Oryol, Kaluga, Tula, Tambov and Kirov regions, as well as Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Crimea and the waters of the Black and Azov seas.
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